#54: Emmet King - Partner & CIO at J12 - Process over Vision
Description
Topics:
- Investing in startups straight out of college.
- Starting NOWO and how the FinTech field has evolved since.
- How to think about the initial phase of the startup journey and measure your progress.
- Group recognition to support.
- Get comfortable hearing that you are taking too much risk and that you will fail and balance that with humility and strong opinions loosely held.
- Vision is far more common than a love for the process.
- Tabulated investment summaries and the dangers of isolating variables.
Emmet King is the co-founder, partner, and CIO of J12, an early-stage investor + angel-network- hybrid investing in disruptive early-stage companies in the Nordics.
Emmet graduated from SSE in 2014, and in the same year, co-founded NOWO, a FinTech app enabling long-term savings through seamless integration in one's day-to-day life. That same year, he also co-founded J12 which today is one of the most active early-stage funds in Sweden. In 2015, he co-founded DHS Venture Partners which is an exclusive network for Stockholm School of Economics alumni with the mission to support the next generation of great entrepreneurs.
Book recommendation:
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
Presence by Amy Cuddy
Website: https://www.j12ventures.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmetking/
United States
